From: "Stefan Reichör" <stefan@xsteve.at>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell: how to alias cp 'cp -i' ?
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:46:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7fksxoi.fsf@utanet.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.329.1188952757.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:18:52 -0700 furue@hawaii.edu wrote:
>
>> I'm new to eshell and am wondering how to alias
>> "cp" to "cp -i". As a first step, I tried this:
>
> I have the line
>
> alias mp mplayer $*
>
> in the file ~/.eshell/alias and it seems to be working. But I forget
> how the line ended up there. Just manually adding should work.
>
> David
I have the following alias defined:
alias l 'ls -la $*'
This allows to issue commands like
l e*
I tried the following:
alias tcp 'cp -i $*'
But this didn't work. That is probably an emacs bug.
When you only want to copy one file to a destination, you can use the following:
alias tcp 'cp -i $1 $2'
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 19:18 eshell: how to alias cp 'cp -i' ? furue
2007-09-05 0:36 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.329.1188952757.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-05 19:46 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]
2007-09-05 23:45 ` furue
2007-09-06 16:13 ` Edward O'Connor
[not found] ` <mailman.424.1189095248.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-07 7:05 ` furue
2007-09-07 7:24 ` furue
2007-09-07 21:44 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.479.1189201469.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-07 22:08 ` furue
2007-09-07 23:08 ` Peter Dyballa
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